Re: z/OS porting issues, UTF-8 support, and the groff man(1) page

[Dave Kemper]

On 3/31/23, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave, what do you think about fallbacks for \(la and \(ra?

I apologize, I don't have time to properly digest this lengthy thread
at the moment and will be out of pocket entirely until Tuesday.  But
off the top of my head, if you're limited to Latin-1 I don't think
there are any reasonable choices for angle brackets besides the ASCII
greater-than and less-than signs, 0x3C and 0x3E.  The
angle-brackety-looking things in the higher part of Latin-1 (0xAB and
0xBB) are used as quotation marks in European languages but I don't
think will look right as URL delimiters (which I think from my quick
skim is what you're looking at here), whereas < and > are pretty
common for this and no one will bat an eye at those in non-UTF-8
contexts.

If I'm way off base in understanding the problem, you have a few days
to compose a lecture to me :)